TOBACCO A LIFE PEESERVATIVE.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4236, 29 July 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

TOBACCO A LIFE PEESERVATIVE.

The use of tobacco is said to be unfavorable to longevity, but it is very doubtful whether this assertion is founded on fact, The New York Herald publishes an interesting account of a series of visits paid by one of its reporters to a large number of very aged persons in that city, alleged to be nonagenarians and centenarians, and who figured as such in the last census returns. It seems from the details given of the habits of these old people that many of them are inveterate I smokers. One case especially is worth the attention of the anti- tobacco associations. It is that of Elizabeth Nolan, one of the alleged " nonagenarians " living at 309, East Thirty-ninth Street. She was, when visited by the reporter, too busy at kitchen work to spend time talking about the insignificant question of her age, but he gleaned from her that she was born in the county of Wicklow, Ireland, and, while she has no way of fixing her age, remembers the burning of the houses and the cabins' thatching in the rebellion of '98—specially remembering her own climbing of the ladders in use by the workmen repairing the cottages. Shehas been three times widowed, and has had fourteen or fifteen children —precisely how many she oannot say. She is a great • great • grandmother. And here! comes the lamentable part of the story: " She has been, and is, a most inveterate smoker and uses a brand .of tobacco so strong that her great-grandson, a working man, is made sick by its fumes.-' This infatuated old woman ought, according to the doctors, to have died more than half a century ago.

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